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My grant proposal focuses on the relationship between malnutrition and childhood ACE’s. My reason for picking malnutrition as my issue was because those who struggle with the condition often come from areas of low SES, poor areas, and low economic opportunity. Malnutrition adds an extra level of burden because biologically it can cause issues with memory and cognition that can extend well into adulthood. The effect of malnutrition and the process of not having enough/the right foods to eat...

PHC6534- From Farm to Family: A trauma-informed program for healthy meals and healing among low-income women in the Bronx Overview Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) have been found to increase the risk for several chronic diseases, including hypertension (Gilbert, et al., 2010). These diseases increase the chance for adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes (Chang, Brown, & Nitzke, 2016). If not managed, gestational hypertension can lead to preeclampsia or eclampsia and an increased risk...

Mental health is a serious problem among the inmates in our country. According to the Vera Institute of Justice, a premier criminal justice research and advocacy non-profit, mental illness is one of the most significant problems facing women in prison today (Subramanian, 2016). In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice found that 31% of incarcerated women have a serious mental illness, while only 15% of men report the same (James, 2006).

Cultivating Resilience: An Agrarian Approach to Suicide Prevention for Rural Minnesota Farmers is a multi-level public health resilience-building intervention aimed at providing information and resources to all levels of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Ecological Model in rural Minnesota farmers and farming communities who are at risk of suicide. (CDC, 2022) Those that work in agriculture are at a 3.5 times increased risk of suicide (Reed, 2020) and suicide amongst...